Polish–Ottoman War (1485–1503)
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Cherubin Gniewosz in the battle of Suceava in 1497 (original by J. Kossak, c. 1890) | |||||||||
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Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate Moldavia |
Kingdom of Poland Duchy of Masovia Teutonic Order Grand Duchy of Lithuania | ||||||||
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Bayezid II Meñli I Giray Stephen the Great |
Casimir IV Jagiellon John I Albert Johann von Tiefen Semyon Olshanski | ||||||||
The Polish–Turkish War of 1485–1503 was a prolonged conflict, rather a series of conflicts, between the Kingdom of Poland and the Ottoman Empire. The conflict formally lasted eighteen years, but during this time hostilities were ceased on several occasions due to temporary treaties being signed between the warring parties.
In the war the Kingdom of Poland was supported by its fiefs, the Duchy of Mazovia and the State of the Teutonic Order, as well as the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Ottoman Empire on the other hand, was allied with the Crimean Khanate and by the Principality of Moldavia during the Moldavian Campaign of 1497–1499.
For most of the 15th century, Moldavia was a vassal of Poland, but other states, notably the Kingdom of Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate, meanwhile tried to subdue Moldavia. After the Fall of Constantinople (1453), the Ottomans directed their expansion northwards towards the lower Danube and behind the mighty river and also threatened Poland.